Review of Nightmare City (1980) by Patrick D — 16 Feb 2008

Goddammit.

This film is really brilliant and amazing. This is for sure a zombie film and really sucks that it hasn't got it's rightful dues. My second Lenzi film, didn't and did dissappoint.

For about 90% of the film it is quite good. Once it gets started it doesn't really let up, and the zombies get these burns on them and can move as fast and as agile as normal humans (they are more of the Planet Terror or Last Man on Earth creatures). This film has definitely taken some cues from Dawn of the Dead, but what Italian zombie flick didn't.

Umberto Lenzi, has proved himself to be a decent director once again.

This is basically a great zombie film. But why the low rating?

The last 5-10 minutes, really cheaps out and frustrates the hell out of the viewer who is really along with the ride.

I would said that any so-called zombie fan should see this, it's great, bad end or not. But still can't get a better rating (also in my book at 6/10 is the rating for a good solid film).

What kind of gets me while writting this is I see that the film on here says it's 92mins, the one I watched was 88mins. I feel there was 4mins edited out. I'll have to look into that.